Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 2, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 April 1908 — Page 3

TOM AND JACK

By ROY NORTON

(Copyright.)

No one ever knew, or it they did it is forgotten, when, and where, and how old Tom Darrow and his pardner, Jack, first met. But that doesn't matter. It's enough that Tom was one of the finest men and Jack probably the wisest burre that ever tock to mining in the Sierra Madres. At least everybody thought so, and what everybody thinks is usually right. Tom was always old, so far as any one ever knew. He was old wnen he came into the country. Not the kind of oldness that-makes men think of it, but the kind which makes them hope to sometimes be old that way themselves. = )

It was entirely by accident that they located in Cresco Canyon. The two partners were striking out for new diggings! having been a little down on their luck. While making their way through the canyon, _Jack turned his foot on a stone and they were obliged to halt. Nobody = had ever. thought enough of that ecanyon before to give it any attentlon, but old Tom Darrow found sufficient pay to buy grub for him and Jzek, and then, belng of the kind that always wants a home, discovered it ‘was the finest - place in all the world. Tom built a cabin, but didn’'t think of it until he found the pay in the creek was just good enough to keep him there and not to attract anyone else to the place. Jack recovered slowly, so Tom had -to do the work alone. It was pretty hard work, too, for a bowed back and gnarled hahds, but he knocked together a very nice little shack. Before he got moved into the cabin Jack got well. . : ~ In those days the country had some pretty mean halfbreeds. Two of them were so desperate that not many men wanted to take the trail after them. Nearly everything they wanted they took, but no great rewards were out for them. They wanted what old Tom had and went for it. :

It was along in the fall, when up in the gulches the nights were clear and cold, that they came. The moon was shining down into the canyon and over the flat where the little cabin with its fringe of flowers: stood. The halfbreeds found the door open, because Tom, who loved and trusted, not a mere few men, but all the world, disdained locks. Tom was -sleeping peacefully in his" bunk and didn’t know they were there, so noiseless had been their entrance, until they threw a blanket over his head. ,_

There had been-a day when no two halfbreeds could have mastered him, but that was in a time when his six feet one of brawn had the staying power of gloriews youth. The bent man of 60,.when it comes to a desperate struggle, feels that his muscles have paid toll to mountain waters, to hardship and to toil. Tom knew how to fight and was unafraid; but when ¢ney unswaddled his head he was fairly down and out—bound hand and foot with the riatas of the frontier, and helpless. The visitors knew the isolation of the cabin and took their time. They were hungry, so stirred the coals in the old-fashioned fireplace which Tom, being an old-fashioned man, had built with such loving care. They ate of his food, and smoked, and rested, before going further in their mission. In the meantime old Tom, his limbs immovable and belpless, and grimly speechless, watched them. He wasn’t the kind to ask for mercy. He knew the type of men toa well and quietly waited and calmly wondered what their next step would be. When they came to the side of his bunk there wasn’t a quaver in his voice as he said with customary directness: : “You fellers has the cinch hand. The next move's up to you. ' 'Now what do yeu want?” L “Your poke of dust,” was ‘the response, and Tom knew he was up against it. S “Well, you can’t bhave it,” was his sturdy reply. : :

Then they did things to 6him which it was good the moon couldn’'t see There are certain little tricks of the border halfbreed that aren’t good to look upon. Pizarro may have been great, but if he is responsible for the Mexican strain of cruelty, where he went there was a specially prepared place for him. Nothing else would be hot enough. g

It took the visitors a long time. Mere pricking of Kknives, or drilling through finger nalls into the quick wouldn’t influence old Tom. ' He shut his jaws hard and did all his swearing through his teeth. Not that he cared for the gold, but it was against his principles to give up. His tormentors worked with much satisfaction, but no luck, for about an hour or two, and made just one mistake. They forgot that he was too old to go through the entire program for the obstinaté. That's the reason why, when they slo®ly cooked the soles of his bare feet in the fireplace, he became unconscious.

Inasmuch as he couldn’t talk any more they made a last search for his hidden wealth, and found it in just such a place as a simple, trusting old man would have secreted it—in a baking.powder box on a shelf. ; Having gone thus far, they knew they would have to go the limit. So one of the men hit poor old Tom a rap over the head with the butt of a Winchester, and the other, to make sure, put a shot through him. When they opened the door to go they were knocked off their feet and run down by something gray that smashed its way past them, realizing in its dumb

The hai.nreeds were surprised by Jack's entrance. Onmne, in a blaze'of wrath, started to pull a gun from its holster, but .the other restrained him, having more sense and knowing that Jack could carry and work for them. It was about all they could do to conquer the four-footed pard, who fought with teeth and hoofs, striking madly and a devil incarnate with rage. But they bested him and took him away. Away dut across the desert to bear his share of slow torture and malignancy.

There isn’'t anybody Xknows Boss Parazette who doesn’t like him, and he naturally likes everybody who does. That's why he got into the habit of dropping off the.trail whenever he passed Tom’s place in Cresco canyon. & Somewhat earlier thaf*usual on this particular morning there came the “tink-tank, tink-tank” of a bell which stopped and Boss dropped over the cliff to say “Hello!” When he opened the door and saw what was within he didn’t say exactly that, but something that sounded similar. He picked the poor, tortured old hulk up, cut the ropes off, felt the heart, bound up the wounds and got busy mighty fast. That was his way. :

“There isn’t any question but that his hurrying saved Tom's lifé; bu&the worst of it was that when Tom got out of' a hospital down in San Bernardino, three months later, he was like a boy beginning life all over again. Didn't remember friends, nor pardners, nor anything, let alone his own name. The doctor had hope for his recovery, but that was about all. Boss took him back up to the cabin on Cresco, and automatically the old man went to work; but not in the same way. He - seemed to be missing something. Time and again Boss ' found him looking at Jack’s old bridle in a puzzléd, wistful way, or standing around the shed where Jack used to sleep at night. 22 There was-a photograph sharp, who called himself an artist, opened up a shop in Victor, a new place on the desert’s border, where Tom used to go for supplies. Well, the halfbreeds, hfing prosperous, happened. in there one time.and had the biggest possible photo taken, arm in arm, and each with & gun in his hand. Tom went over to Victor one day after he got strong to lay in a sack of flour and a little bacon which Boss was going to take out for him the next day. | Having done his trading, he wandered down the street and came to this photo man's display. He didn't show much in_t_grest at first; then suddenly his hand went to his head and clutched through the silver thatch that had barely grown out to cover the place where he had been wounded. His eyes grew wild for a minute, then cold, and had a new look in them. His white brows came together in a frown and his lips tightened to a straight line. His fingers, maimed and scarreag, began gripping and ungripping his palms, and folks passing saw something that made them stop and gather in a little cluster around him. “I know who I am,” he said, just as if that had been bothering him for a mighty long time or some one had disputed him. “I know who I am. T'm Tom Darrow! Tom Darrow!” Then he straightened up until he. looked like the Tom Darrow some of the boys had %nown when first he came—the way he must have looked 20 years before. PR 2

“What’s happened to me? Why am 1 here in Victor and where is Jack and them greasers? Tell me quicki!” He reached out his great steadily clutching hands to th,e shoulders of a man whom, for the" first time in months, he knew. : : The man told him. Tom didn’'t sax anything in reply. All those around wanted to ask questions, but were afraid to. Tom looked into one face after another, then walked into the gallery. When he came out there was something bulging in his shirt-front where he had thrust it through. It was one of the big photos. , Abont an hour later he did something that wasn’t usual with the oldtime Darrow. He got friendly, very friendly, with a crowd of Mexicans that were camped in the creek bottom below the town. :

This kept up for two days, while his old friends were scandalized and apparently forgotten; but in the meantime he showed, at intervals, a photograph of two “other fellers” he wanted to hear about very much.

Into the camp, at the beginning of the second night, came two Mexicans who - had- worked across the desert from far above and were headed around for Rabbit Springs. They had seen the “other fellers” whom Tom sought, in a half-way station up near Dcs Palmas. ' L

Tom waited not for the . morning, and the white trail across / the sands saw him riding—steadily riding—to Dos Palmas. :

It was night, too, when, in a shack wherein they felt security, two men were awakened By a battering*on the door and its breaking down immediately after. They sprang from their bunks and blankets to behold, outlined against the stars behind and their dim candle in front, a cold, deadly, whitehaired figure of vengeance. They recognized him. N

There are times when the first thing a man does is to reach for his gun, provided of course he has any sense. This was the time for the halfbreeds to grab, and they had sense enough for that, be sure. The first one whose hand fell on a bistol butt didn’t get time to raise it; he died too quick. The other fired, but wasn't & good shot. Before he could shoot again the pistol had - been wrenched from his hand, he was seized like a thing of no weight, lifted high into the air and thrown half-way across the room, to fall on the still quivering body of his comtade. - Above him in the candle-light towered a giant. Not the old Tom Barrow of kindliness, whom he had torture:l, maimed and left for dead: Not the forgiving old Tom Darrow of Cres:uo canyon, but Tom Darrow who had dropped off 40 years and with them the mantle of age’s tenderness. A ‘man who was ready to kill the moaning thing before him as remorselessly as he would a mad wolf. S e

other arose to a half-sitting, half-lean-ing posture on the bunk, resting on one elbow, his other arm, broken in that terrific throw, dangling awkwardly and his eyes staring with wide terror at this white-haired apparition. In mumbling Spanish he began an appeal to the long-forgotten Virgin for mercy, while the young Tom listened and suddenly grew old and became the old Tom again. He wanted to k{ll this thing before him, but it was already hurt, and—well—there floaged through his head one of his favorite passages. ‘“Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. I will repay.”

“Damn you!” said Tom to the kneeling man before him. “God knows I ought to kill you; but I can’t.”” And with this the full scores of years were back on him again and the forgiving old Tom Darrow had returned. “There’s one thing you've got to answer first,”” he said as the outlaw started to arise. “What did you do with my burro?” “By the living Lord I've a mind to kill you for that,” he said when the answer came that for nearly a hundred miles poor Jack had been goaded beneath his pack, and then, when strength failed, left lying on the face of the desert to die..

The younger Tom . Darrow threatened to come back with all his hot youth, the pistol waved uncertainly in the air, the outlaw fell back upon his knees and once more took to prayer. Again there was an instant's ° hesitancy.

Without a word Tom picked up and smashed the weapons in . the cabin, while the halfbreed waited. Then Tom took one more look at the man on the floor and the form on the bunk, turned slowly on his heel, walked out of the cabin and into the moonlight" where his tired horse awaited. :

The young Tom Darrow had gone forever and old Tem Darrow rodé away. . /

Three days later, when Boss came down the trail he was hailed by old Tom. He wanted to buy a burro, “not bein’ anxious to give other friends a heap of trouble totin’ grub up thar” for him: but Boss found Tom was going to be mighty hard to suit. There didn’t seem to be any burros in the world good enough. So Boss declined the latest mission. 4 ‘ However, Tom went down to San Bernardino to buy a burro. Joe Lard had a corral filled with them, and ran iem around a little, but none of them would do. The fact was Tom looked tor a burro like his pardner had been, «nd that kind weren’t common. They wade him heartsick—this band = did—«nd the more he looked the more he Lknew there was no burro living like the one that had fought for him and then died on the cruel sands. . He felt at last that he was alone in the world «nd bereaved. Nothing but a burro, after all, but something he loved. “Joe,” he said, as it all came to him, “TI guess I don’t want to buy nothin” after all. I'm an old man livin” in a aream. I thought I wanted a plain, cnery burro to pack things; but it wasn't that, after all. I wanted to buy a friend, and it don’t matter how much gold a man has, that’'s one thing he can't buy. Leastwise in a mule corral.” He laughed to hide a sob. Joe understood, and old Tom read it in his eyes. That unloosed him again. “You see, Joe, I ain’t never had no wife, nor no children, nor nothin’ to love real close, excgpt Jack, and we'd got used to each other. Why, I could call him to me like this—"

. His lips puckered and there issued a long-drawn melancholy note. From the center of the corral rose a wild commotion. Heels, teeth and fore hoofs were swirling. From out the ruck, at the sound of the whistle, came a little gray burro who frantically rushed to the corral and thrust his head through an opening. Tom dropped to his’knees, took the big shaggy face in his arms, babbled into the wungainly ears and, was not ashamed of tears. :

Joe refused to take money. The Lord will repay him, too, for that! Hotels don’t take burros .as guests. That’s why, as the dusk dropped down, over San Bernardino valley and the night was warm with beauty, as if God had mantled it with love and kindliness, a white-haired old man, bent and gnarled but very happy, tramped into the foothills to camp. And close at his hels, as if fearing to lose sight of him, trotted a tired little old burro, whose heart ached for the scabin, and the homely flowers, and the singing brook of Cresco canyon. Tom and Jack were going home.

WENT TOO FAR INTO FUTURE. Fortune Teller’'s Last Words Caused Quick Change of Opinion. “You are going to be-married within a year,” said the fortune teller who guaranteed to give satisfaction. ‘ The young lady heaved a glad sigh. “You will go to Europe on your wedding trip.” fge : The beautiful girl drew two or three glad sighs and murmured: “Go on, please.” “He will be rather tall and he will have dark : hair.” ST

The girl trembled with joy. She had been skeptical when she sat down. Now she was convinced ‘that the fortune 'teller was blessed with second sight. . : “Is that all?” she asked. - “You will have plenty of money, and you will live in another city.” “I am* sure it must be George,” said the girl, forgetting in her joy that she was speaking out loud. “Do you see anything else in my hand?” . ° The fortune teller looked agair and studied the lines carefully. ’ ; “Yes,” she said at length, “you will bave six children, and—" v “I believe you are a regular fraud,” ungrily declared the young lady as ghe picked up her gloves and hastily departed. \ ; 2

Willing to Sample It.

An old Scotchwoman, who was very fond of gossip and a dram, was induced to sign the temperance pledge. Calling upon a friend one day the bottle was produced, and a glass handed to her. “Na, na, Mrs. Mitchell,” sald the gossip; “I have signed the pledge ne’'er to touch nor handle ' a glass again, but if ye’ll put & wee drap in & eup I'll sample it.” 5 s

|et / 3 . . | A ge.-m Pl ULV AR W; 2 r'!;a:-,, L < flm:,_\‘ & ff?fl-}_, !m“";'; 4 e s 3ly /) ) N AT Rl "' TR DS i’ <AT | A A A I I SIS NI GNP nIS” BRACING CORNER POSTS. How It Can' Be Effectively Done at Small Cost. This method, while cheaply devised, Is used very effectively in braeing corner posts. Use as a brace a pole nine or tea feet long, four or five inches in diameti}yfl square at both ends. Fit one end of pole to the post half way between its middle and top and place other end of brace on a flat stone. Secure one end of a wire argund bottom of post, then take it to I 5 : _:- - R - Way Bracing Is Done. outer end of. brace and back to ‘post again, fastening securely. With a short stout stick twist wires together untfl very tight and your brace is complete, says Farmers’ Review. This brace cemes in line with your fence and by fastening your wire or boards to it prevents it from slipping sideways. '

APPLICATION OF MANURE. ! Get It on the Land as Soon as Possible, ; In order to reduce the loss in marnure to a minimum, and also to economize in handling it, the general aim and practice should be to haul it directly from the stable to the field and spread it at once. On the average farm the following of this practice all through the year would result in less loss than any method that could be purgued. ' : - The use of rotted™ manure rather than fresh manure is deésirable in connection with many market garden or vegetable crops, as it gives quicker regults and with root crops will give A amoother and nicer product. Manure should be spread as soon as it §s hauled to the field. The practice of putting it in piles is objectionable because of the loss that is likely to occur. The placing in piles also involves additional labor. Sm .

The manner of spreading will depend upon local conditions, but where the distance to haul is relatively“short and it is desired to have it evenly spread the manure spreaders will be found serviceable machines. From ten to twenty tons of manure per acre is usually considered a fair application; but considerably more is frequently applied for market garden crops. Experiments have shown that generally it would be far more profitable to use about one-half the 'usual quantities and to supplement it with commercial fertilizers. 5

AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Protect the meadows when they are soft. Tramping injures them. Manure of all kinds should be well protected during bad weather.” If it has been carefully kept under cover and properly applied, it will show its effect almost immediately; but if it has been leached by heavy rains and exposed to drying winds and the sun’s rays, it will not be so valuable. Give the boy two or three acres of ground to farm this year. Allow him to send to the state -agricultural college for some seed corn and assist him in preparing the ground and planting this seed. The work will be good for him, the information obtained will be invaluable and the profits will be ample for him to provide his own clothes for the coming year. As a measure of economy, plan to grow plenty of vegetables for the family table throughout the year—potatoes, peas, beans, beets, sugar corn, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, et¢c. Study out a good truck patch now, fx}d\work it for all it is worth. Buy seed now if need be. Also grow plenty of roots for the cows, horses, sheep, and poultry and save buying bran. It is the buying of food things that keeps some farmers poor. :

: l.oss of Fertility by Leaching. Land kept constantly as a garden loses much of its fertility by leaching, A clover rotation is the best preventive of this. There should be at least two or three garden spots on each farm kept rich enough so that one year's extra manuring will bring it into the finest possible condition for garden truck. If farmers could always plant gardeds on two-year clover sod they would raise better crops and with less stable manure and other fertilizers than they now require. The clover does much more than furnish green manure to ferment in the soil. Its roots reach down into the subsoil, thus not only saving and bringing to the surface plant food that would otherwise be wasted, but also by enlivening the subsoil, allowing the roots of crops to go, deeper. Clover sod to begin with, {f well enriched, is best for such crops as cucumbers and melons, that are always most liable to suffer from drought. It is quite impossible to make a good garden crop, unless the land has previously been enriched by a series of heavy manurings. The fertility lost by leaching must be constantly renewed. :

Disease Checks Egg Laying.

T bought 25 pullets which had been exposed to contagious diseases. This was unknown to me at the time, but I have found out since. When the birds came in they looked ' perfectly healtliy, but after they were here two weeks I noticed some developing chickenpy x, and we have had a battle royal with two pens for some time. Ther+ are some individual hens in the pens that laid probably 18 eggs a month., but there are some that have not laid any eggs. They lay for a time and then they get a touch of a disease and gtop. :

INTELLIGENT FARMING. Different Treatment Is Needed for DI ferent Soils. One of the first things the farmer must learn is that soils differ greatly as to the kinds and quantities of the plant foods they contain. This seems to be one of the hardest things to impress upon the farmer. Over and over again the mistake is made of buying a fertilizer because it has given good results when applied to certajgn farms. In fact many of the fertilizer sellers put out literature that has for its base the testimonials of growers showing how manry potatoes were grown, or how much .of other things were grown, as a result of the use of the fertilizer.

Soils differ so radically that it is impossible to make a fertilizer mixture that will be suited to the procduction of a certain crop in all places.. The supposition that such is possible is a delusion and a snare. e

Every farmer should try to read the reports of the investigations of soils, ®hat he may be able to form a true conception of the needs of his soil To show how enormously soils differ we have but to journey to different parts of the state of. Illinois or to any state where a soil survey has been made and experiments undertaken. Go down into the Kankakee marshes that have been drained and brought into cultivation. They have soil so rich in nitrogen that it is a loss of time to put on nitrogenous fertilizers, and $4O of blood per acre gave no results. But a little potassium made the soil bring forth ten fold. Just the opposite may be found in another eounty where the land lacks nitrogen and has enough potassium. There the avnplication of potassium had no effect while a little blood accomplished wor.ders. Many soils have both potassium and nitrogen, but lack phosphorus. This has to be supplied before they will give returns of any consequence. As long as men huy fertilizers because they do well in some places, so long will they throw away a large part of their money. Soils differ in different counties, and they differ sometimes on the same farm, says Farmers" Review. Frequently one part of a farm is of one geological formation and another part of another geological formation. One may have been created a million years before the other was created. One may be product of the grindings of the glaciers, while another may be: the re sult of the slow action of water de positing its silt little by little. One part of a man’s farm may be rich in nitrogen, while another is starving for it. A man must know his land and what is in it. : ;

CARRYING TRUNK IN A BUGGY. Frame Which Will Make the Undertaking Safe. To carry a trunk or any bulky article in a small buggy, make a frame out of two pieces of 1%x2 inch scantlings A A g { eSS 0 (g, T >7\ i AR o, s | o] i AJL /-ty R \‘x‘/u- M(W:‘L = Y 077 N /4';/////// A s e s Carrying Trunk‘ in Buggy. 8 feet long.' Nail a board across the ends as shown in A of the accompanying illustration. Place the free ends beneath the seat and under the foot rest in front, letting the frame extend behind the buggy. The trunk or box, explains Prairie Farmer, can then be placed on the end of the frame behind the seat of the buggy. It should be tied on. BETTER THAN WHITEWASH. Serviceable Paint Which Is Made Out of Sour Milk. A serviceable paint for farm buildings can be made by thickening sout milk or buttermilk with Portland ce ment and metallic veneiian red, o 1 bright red paint powder to the ordi nary paint iconsistency. . I painted the outside of my barn (rough Ilumber) with this mixture and also painted a few boards with ordinary oil paint as a check, and six years after the milk paint had preserved the wood better than the oil paint. It has kept its color and.shows no sign of age, writeg a farmer in Indiana Farmer. Thig paint will not rub or wash off like whitewash. The grease in = the milk seems to have the fixing quality, as 1 tried using water with the cement and found it rubbed off readily. For thia reason it is judged that sour milk is better than buttermilk, as it contains more grease. This sort of paint costs but little and can be mixed up in stantly. It is very valuable for doing little odd painting jobs around the farm which might not otherwise get done. It is necessary to keep agitat ing the paint, as the. cement settles quickly.

Sheep Gewing Back on Farmi.

There is no uunger of any person getting into trounle in predicting that from now on the sheep is to be returned to its proper pmlace on the farms. And why not, when it makea by far more money out of the.grass and the weeds, and the seeds, the roots, the grains, the hay and anything else fed to it than any other kind of animal we raise;, and it does that without one needing to milk or grind for them? All this is required to give the feed as it comes from the field, only that turnips had better be cut. Does that not tell, and tell ma terially, when the labor saved is con sidered, how we can fatm, farm well, and cut down expensve labor bills?

A REMARKABLE MAN. Actlve and Bright, Though Almost a : Centenarian. - : . Shepard Kollock, of 44 Wallace St., Red Bank, N. J., is a remarkable man < at the age of 98. RS i, o] For 40 years he was s "“ a victim of kidney ; : )/’ 'ltroubllles and doctors " /7>, said he would never y"\. g// %)/ be cured. “I was ) /’ / trying everything,” i, says Mr. Kollock, “but my back was lame and weak, and every- exertion sent a sharp twinge through me. I had to get up several times each night and the kidney secretions contained a heavy sediment. Recently I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills, with fine results. They have given me entire relief.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE.

R & P : Yy Y gy /N \‘@ , %> L T oy g :v- i'(' BT 77 77 (X - T 2 il 7 Y A 7) < L ,é;:z;;;;f’éé’!',fll' S Spe. &2 o 1 ==, o s .”:': e (‘ : e g o e Zhyrobaat, = (o Schoo[master—DQ you wish your son to learn the dead languages? Mr. Koffin—Certainly, as I shall require him to agiSt in my business as an undertaker. ‘ DEEP CRACKS FROM ECZEMA Could Lay Siate-Pencil in One—Hands . in Dreadful State—Penmanent Cure in Cuticura. “lI had eczema on my hands for about seven years jand during that time I had used several so-called remedieg, together with physicians’ and druggists’ prescriptions. The disease was so bad on my hands that I could lay a slate-pencil in one of the cracks and a rule placed -across the hand would not touch the pencil. I kept using remedy after remedy, and while some gave partial relief, none re®eved as much as did the first box of Cuticura Ointment. I made a purchase of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and my hands were perfectly cured after two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and one cake of Cuticura Soap were used. W. H. Dean, Newark, Del.,, Mar. 28, 1907.”

Origin of the Elevator.

The elevator originated in Centra. Europe. The earliest, mention of the elevator is made in a letter of Napoleon I. addressed .to his wife, Archduchess Maria Louise. He writes to her that when in Schoenbrunn, then the summer residence of the Austrian emperor, near Vienna, he used the “chaise volante” (flying chair) in that castle which had been constructed for Empress Maria Theresa. It consisted of a small, square room, sumptuously furnished with hangings of red silk and suspended by strong ropes with counter weights, so that it :could be pulled up or let down with great ease in a ‘shaft built for the purpose about 1760. <

Strenuous Method of Saving Life.

"Two officers who were hunting wolves on the Dry mountain in central Servia lost their way in a fog. After wandering for ¥4 hours one of them lay down in the snow and speedily became unconscious. His comrade bound him with cords, placed him in a sitting position and then rolled him down the mountain. He glided down the slope at terrific speed and reached the bottom safely, being found an hour later in an exhausted condition by a peasant. He is now in the hospital being treated for the lacera: tions he received in bumping over the rocks during his descent. His companion is unhurt. ' =

Worth a Trial.

Cyrus Townsend Brady, the author and clergyman, told at a dinner in Toledo a story about charity. “A millionaire,” said Dr. Brady, “lay dying. He had lived a life of which, as he now looked back on it, he felt none too proud. To the minister at his bedside he muttered weakly: “f I leave $lOO,OOO or so to the church, will my salvaffon be assured? “The minister answered cautiously: . * ‘T wouldn’t like to be positive, but it’s well worth trying.’” HAPPY OLD AGE Most Likely to Follow Proper Eating. As old age advances, we require less food to replace waste, and food that will not overtax the digestive organs, while supplying true nourishment. Such an ideal food is found in GrapeNuts, made of whole wheat and barley by long baking and action of diastase in the barley which changes the starch into sugar. - s "

The phosphates also, placed up under the bran-coat of the wheat, are included in Grape-Nuts, but left out of white flour. They are necessary to the building of brain and nerve cells. “I have used Grape-Nuts,” writes an lowa man, ‘“for 8 years and feel as good and am stronger than I was ten years ago. lam over 74 years old, and attend to my business every day. “Among my customers I meet a man every day who is 92 years old and attributes his good health to the use of Grape-Nuts and Postum which he has used for the last 5 years. He mixes Grape-Nuts with Postum and says they go fiwe together. : “For many years before I began to eat Grape-Nuts, I could not say that I enjoyed life or knew what it was to be able to say ‘I am well.’ I suffered greatly with constipation, now my habits are as regular as ever in my life. “Whenever I make extra effort I depend on Grape-Nuts food and it just fills the bill. I can think and write a great deal easier.” Een “There’s a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Wellville,” In pkgs.

WESTERR CANADA CROPS : s e | GANNOT BE CHECKED. OATS YIELDED 90 BUSHELS TO : ~ THE ACRE. . : The following letter written the Dominion Government Commissioner of Emigration speaks for itself. It proves the story of the Agents of the Government that on the free homesteads offered by the Government it is possible to become comfortably well off in a few years: AEiedn e Regina, Sask., 23rd Nov., 1907, - Commissioner of Immigration, ' Winnipeg., - = - Dear Sir: s | It is with pleasure that I reply to your requést. Some years ago I took ’u’i) a homestead for myself and also’ one for my son.. The half section which we own is situated between Rouleau and Drinkwater, adjoinincg the Moose- Jaw creek, is a low level and heavy land. We put in 70 acres of wheht in stubble, which went 20 bushels to the acre, and 30 acres of summer fallow, which- went 25 bushels to the acre. All the wheat we harvested this year is No. 1 hard. That' means: the best wheat that can be raised on theearth. Wedidnot sell any wheat yet as we intend to keep..one part for our own seed, and sell the-other part to people who want first-class seed, for there is no doubt if you sow good wheat you will harvest good wheat. We also threshed 9,000. bushels of first-class oats out of 160 acres. 80 acres has been fall plowing which yielded 90 bushels per acre, and 80 acres stubble, which went 30 bushels to the acre. Thkese oats are the Dbest kind that can. =be lraised. We have shipped three car loads of them, and get 53 cents per bushel clear. . All our graip was cut in the last week of the month of August before any frost could touch it. L S Notwithstanding the fact that we have had a late spring, and that the |weather conditions this year were | very adverse and unfavorable, we will | make more money out of our crop | this year than last. - -

For myself I feel compelled to say that Western Canada crops cannot be checked, even by unusual conditions. I am, dear sir, - - _ Yours truly, - o : -(Signed) A. Kaltzubrunner.

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She—Algernon, you have now ‘been courting me seven years. Quick, name the day, or I may not be able to find the brake! : i : :

The past winter has been especially hard on cattle and horses. The scarcity and poor quality of the feed has left the horses in poor condition for spring work and the.cows weakened at their most: eritical, the calving, time. In many localities the farmers are using a tonic which they prepare themselves with good results. An 8 oz. box of Powdered Germas Compound is obtained at the druggist's and mixed with 8 oz, Powdered Willow Charcoal, 8 oz. Powdered Ginger, 1 Ib. Common Salt, 6 Ibs. Ground Oil Cake. Two tablespoons of the mixture is fed to each cow or-horse with regular feed twice a day. - : :

Answered Truthfully.

- During the late financial filurry a St. Louis business man" was called to serve on a jury. “What is your name?” asked the attorney. “John Smith,” the business man replied. “Your color?”’ the attorney continued. “White,” said John Smith. “Your age?” “Forty-eight” quoth Mr. Smith.” “Your business?” “Rotten,” said John Smith.: e

How’s This?

‘We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannét be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, FES e F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have-known F. J. Chengy for the last 15 gears, and belleve him perfectly &x--orable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WaALDING. KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall’'s Catarrh Cure is taken internally; acting directly upon the blood and muecous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Priee 75 cents per bottle. Soid blg all Druggists. - boe Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation, - :

A Diplomat.

“So. you gave your husband a box of cigars?” . i v “: “Yes,” answered young Mrs. Torkins. ! 1 - -

“Did he appreciate them?” - - “Indeed he did. He values them so highly that he is smoking a pipe so as not to use them up too fast.” - D Bdies

. He—l think that I have the pleasure of the next dance? . =~ , She—You do. = : Now, what did she mean by that?— Harvard Lampoon. =~ : ;

It Cures While You Walk.

Allen’s Foot-Ease is a certain cure for hot, sweating, callous, and swollen; aching feet. Sold by all Druggists. Price 25¢. Don’t accept any substitute. Trial ;I);c_kage FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Roy, N. Y.

Bulgarians’ Healthful Diet.

In Bulgaria the chief article of food is sour milk made into zoghurt. On this diet the people live to a rare old age. : S S

‘For Over Half a Century - - Brown's Bronchial Troches have been unexcelled as a cure for hoarseness, coughs and sore throat.

The first virtue is to restrain’ the tongue; he attains true greatness who knows how to be silent even when he is in the right.—Cato. e e P ot 8 cure an ; A e IR S It isn’t idle curiosity that prompts a man to look for work. : : ‘Lewis’ Single/ Binder straight 5e ?uMade of extra flxality _tobacco. ~ Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. Fancy prices please the seller more

DO YOU KNOW ‘ WHAT WHITE LEAD ISt

Its Chief Use and a Method of Deter - mining Good from Bad Explaiied.

- White Lead is the standard paint material all over the world. itis made by corroding metallic lead into a white powder, through exposing it te the fumes of weak acetic acid and carbonic acid gas; this powder is then ground and mixed with linseed oil, making a thick paste, in which form it is packed and sold for painting purposes. The painter thins it down to the proper consistency for application by the addition of more linseed oil. . .The above refers, of course, to pure, genuine White Lead only. Adulterated and fake “White Lead,” of which thers are many brands on the market, 'is generally some sort of compesiticn. containing only a percentage of white lead; sometimes no White Lead at all; in such stuff, barytes or ground rock, chalk, and similar cheap substances are used to make balk and imitate tha appearance of pure White Lead. There is, however, a positive ¢est by which the purity or impurity of White Lead may be proved or exposed, before painting with it. : The blow-pipe flame will reduce pure white lead to metallic lead. If a supposed white lead be thus tested and it ‘only partially reduces to lead, leaving a residue, it is proof that something else was there besides white lead.

The National Lead Company guar antee all White Lead sold in packages bearing its “Dutch Boy Painter” trademark to prove absolutely pure under this blow-pipe test, and that you may make the test yourself in your owna home, they will send free upon request a blow-pipe and everything else necessary to make the test, together with a valuable booklet on paint. Address, National Lead Company, Woodbridge Building, New York. : v

It’s All Right, Then.

She—-You bave kissed other girlg haven’t you? : i ' - He—Yes; but no one that you know. —Harper's Weekly. ~ .o

WHAT CAUSES HEAIACHE. From October to May, Colds are the most fres guent cause of Headache, LAXATIVE BROMC QUININE removes cause. E.W.Greve on bex 25¢

‘Success seldom comes te 2 man who ien’t expecting it. :

i A - N Z 3 ‘ \W‘ . : - Ll Lot DS L 073 | . v -_r.-___,/,,{‘a',a,’\c % i R s A Sy /’/i//’),,;g & & AR ol 1 \4\ ’ ; R ) N \ N\ \\ » N [ How many American women in lonely homes to-day long for this blessing to come into their lives,and . to be'able to utter these words, but because of some organic derangement this happiness is denied them. Every woman interested in this subject should know that preparation for healthy ~maternity is accomplished by the wuse of LYDIA E.PINKHAM’S - Mrs. Maggie Gilmer, of West , Union, S. C.,writes to Mrs.Pinkham: ““] was greatly run-down in health f#rom a weakness peculiar to my sex, when " Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was recommended to me. It . not only restored me to perfect health, but to my delight I am a mother.” Mrs. Josephine Hall,of Bardstown, Ky., writes: - - “1 was a very great sufferer from ‘female troubles, and my physician failed to help me. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- - table Compound not qnly restored me to perfect health, but'l am now a proud mother,” 3 ,

FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. - For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, mgde from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousandsof women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear-ing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion,dizziness or nervous prostration. Why don’t you try it ? Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. s_ | Positively cured by c ARI ERs .these Little Pills. o They also relieve Distress sia, In(SR ITTLE | Tec fearty IVER Eating. DA perfect remedy for Dizzi N PILLS. [ Droweincss, Baa : Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the [__ Iside, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetabie. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. B S A T Te S, eRS ST S B R e . T mm Genuine Must Bear . Fac-Simile Signature T | i ? REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. | ¢ 1 candies and chocolaves : _ writetothe makerforeat R B A 212 Sae Street, C"'ai-."'i:« TECRARS AR Ci Shsipane the gateway to the Huds md?g xed BEEEREE PATENTSEEaswimnees